The crew of a privately-funded space mission will today attempt the first spacewalk by non-professional astronauts
The commander of the Polaris Dawn expedition – and one of his crewmates – will leave the relative safety of the SpaceX Dragon capsule more than 400 miles above the Earth and spend several minutes in the vacuum of space.
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